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Alt News is a not-for-profit organization, which functions under the aegis of Pravda Media Foundation (CIN: U93030GJ2017NPL099435), registered under Section 8 of the Company Act, 2013. Our team consists of scientists, software professionals and journalists thus bringing a variety of skills to the table.
Along with verifying information in English and Hindi, Alt News also invests a significant share of resources to develop technological and education solutions. We have built an app where people can share conducted information literacy workshops for organizations like World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers and Google.
Along with verifying information in English and Hindi, Alt News also invests a significant share of resources to develop technological and education solutions. We have built an app where people can share conducted information literacy workshops for organizations like World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers and Google.
Overview
Location
India, Gujarat, Ahmedabad
Employees
11-50
Phone
+91 98252 55790
Founded date
2017
Mentions in press and media 10
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| Jan 17, 2023 | India proposes social media firms rely on fact checking by gov’t agencies | The Indian government has proposed making the Press Bureau of India and its other agencies the arbiter of truth on what information is misleading for social media firms and other internet companies as they oversee their users’ data in the S... |
| May 24, 2021 | Police in India visited Twitter offices over ‘manipulated media’ label | Delhi police, controlled by India’s central government, on Monday evening visited two offices of Twitter — in the national capital state of Delhi and Gurgaon, in the neighboring state of Haryana — to seek more information about Twitter’s ra... |
| May 21, 2021 | India objects to ‘manipulated’ label on politicians tweets; asks removal of reference to ‘Indian variant’ of coronavirus | The Indian government has expressed strong objection to Twitter for classifying tweets by Indian politicians as “manipulated media,” and separately asked social media firms to remove posts that refers to an “Indian variant” of the coronavir... |
| May 1, 2021 | A major battle over free speech on social media is playing out in India during the pandemic | As the coronavirus pandemic rages in India, claiming thousands of lives, many Indians are turning to social media to demand that the government handle the public health crisis better. And now, the government is silencing these critics in it... |
| Jul 8, 2020 | The Days After: A Retrospective on Chinese and Indian Media Coverage of the June 16 Border Conflict | On June 16, many people in the United States woke up to the news that Indian and Chinese troops had clashed along their contested border in the Galwan Valley, a remote region that sits some 3,000 meters above sea level and frequently experi... |
| Feb 13, 2019 | Manipulating an Indian politician’s tweets is worryingly easy to do | Here’s a concerning story from India, where the upcoming election is putting the use of social media in the spotlight. While the Indian government is putting Facebook, Google and other companies under pressure to prevent their digital platf... |
| Dec 19, 2018 | TikTok parent ByteDance sues Chinese news site that exposed fake news problem | There’s worrying news from China’s online media world as ByteDance, the $75 billion company behind popular video app TikTok, is taking a news site to court for alleged defamation after it published a story about ByteDance’s fake news proble... |
| Are Social Media Cos Doing Enough To Curb Fake News Around Coronavirus? | With over 60 confirmed cases of coronavirus currently in India and over 110K cases worldwide, the epidemic has well and truly taken over news cycles all over the world. And an equally tragic side-effect of the outbreak is the spread of fake... | |
| Was India’s ‘Drone Prodigy’ Kite Flying About His Indigenous Tech? | For Prathap NM, the journey from being hailed to going awol took just a year. A quintessential son of the soil from Karnataka was hailed as a prodigy. Born in Mandya in a poor farming family, the 22-year-old science grad from JSS College of... |
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FAQ about Alt News
When was Alt News founded?
Alt News was founded in 2017.
What has the press written about Alt News?
Parsers VC has collected 10 articles mentioning Alt News, among them “India proposes social media firms rely on fact checking by gov’t agencies” (Jan 17, 2023) and “Police in India visited Twitter offices over ‘manipulated media’ label” (May 24, 2021).
Is Alt News still active?
Alt News is probably closed: its latest activity on Parsers VC dates from Apr 20, 2024.